I'm really not a fan of the so-called multitasking. First it shouldn't be called multitasking because there's still only one app running at a time. In my personal opinion they should have called it background services, since that's an accurate description of what it does and it doesn't mislead the user into thinking that they can have multiple apps running simultaneously.
That's just a minor gripe though. What annoys me the most is that everything you open goes into the task bar or whatever it's called. I get way too many apps in there way too quickly and it's a pain to constantly delete things out of there. A much better approach in my view would have been to only put apps that are subscribed to one of the background services in there. Then the user knows which apps are actually "multitasking" and can cut them off from the background services by erasing them from that menu. Seems like a way better approach to me.
A couple of the updates like folders, threaded email, background pic, etc were nice but that's just catching up to competitors. Nothing at all new or innovative about it, so nothing to get excited over.
Overall, I'm pretty disappointed. Not that it was a bad update, it just fell far short of the mark established by all the hype. I'm sure it will start to become better once some apps actually make use of the background services, but for the time being not a single one of the apps makes use of it as far as I can tell.
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